The flickering fluorescent lights of the storage unit buzzed and hummed, a constant, grating sound that amplified the tension building in Evelyn’s chest. Another box. Another memory she couldn’t place. She was slowly going insane trying to figure out what was hers and what wasn't.

She was already late for her book club, and she didn't care. She’d spent hours rummaging through dusty crates, desperately searching for anything familiar. She glared at the time capsule box. After this, she was going home to sit on the sofa and do nothing, absolutely nothing. Her hands shook as she lifted the lid.

Emotion: irritated

Cluster: Anger / Hostility
PC1 (Valence): -0.86 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): 1.07

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion irritated. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 irritated stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the irritated emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the irritated vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
l0.370
S0.282
P0.264
😠0.248
aggravated0.233
Suppressed:
own-0.300
joyful-0.211
joyous-0.207
खोले-0.206
newfound-0.205